UCU united
It was with interest that we read Fawzi Ibrahim's article "A house divided cannot stand" (20 December) on his perceptions of the state of the University and College Union.A healthy union contains...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
Bucks New UniversityNo regretsA student is inviting passers-by to think about what they would like to achieve before they die. Paola Brotto, who is studying for a master's in furniture design at...
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News in brief
United States'No basis' on which to sack staffA US university's administrators violated governance, academic freedom and tenure procedures when they abolished academic programmes, sacked staff and...
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News in brief
Scientific misconductImmunologist found guiltyA former researcher at the universities of Glasgow and Liverpool has been found guilty of serious scientific misconduct by his previous university in...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Touching Encounters: Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting
Victor Minichiello hails a study of secret desires that challenges heteronormative notions of masculinity
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Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism
Beginning with its enjoyable introduction, Worm Work promises to be entertaining. Its topic is one of the lowliest forms of life, the worm, and Janelle Schwartz aims to bring these creatures to our...
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The Curse of Reason: The Great Irish Famine
In a highly original account of a hugely traumatic series of events, Enda Delaney takes a novel approach by interweaving 50 years of history with the lives of four important actors: John McHale, the...
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Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy
Strong ties between ruler and ruled became taboo subjects post-1945, says Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Alone in America: The Stories That Matter
In 1953, Hannah Arendt would speak of loneliness, "once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age", as having become "an everyday experience of the...
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The Tiger That Swallowed The Boy: Exotic Animals In Victorian England
People from outside these islands have often been puzzled by the strength of Britons' feeling for animals, as illustrated by a letter published in 1881 in the Liverpool Mercury on the lack of regard...
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Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest
Cathy Shrank extols an insight into the life of a poet who watched his words in Henry VIII's court
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The Conservatives Since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change
While the Conservatives held office between 1979 and 1997, the Labour Party monopolised scholarly attention. Since Tony Blair's first landslide victory, the pendulum seems to have swung the other way...
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The Nation Made Real: Art and National Identity in Western Europe, 1600-1850
Anthony Smith is a crisp explainer. The nature and purpose of his project is crystal clear. "This book sets out to explore some of the contributions of visual artists to the rise of nations and...